Now this is a good use of a courthouse! The old courthouse is a beautiful chonker to begin with, but it’s also connected to a stylish new courthouse as well. Not only are they harmonious together, but all the side buildings like the parking garage match them, and the entire complex blends in nicely with the surrounding buildings sharing the square. I don’t know who did the architecture for the county here, but I hope they got a bonus. The entire package is lovely and I am the person they were aiming for with it!
Speaking of bridges, I originally didn’t want to get the cache I ended up with because I expected something totally different from it, but it was the closest cache to the courthouse so I at least checked it out. The Cross Street Bridge was originally built in the 1870s. A conductor living in town didn’t like the idea of his kids having to cross the tracks to get to and from school each day so he arranged to buy the land around the tracks and then arranged for the railroad company to build the bridge over the tracks. It was refurbished in 2010 and is one of the few wooden driving bridges I’ve seen that wasn’t covered. I originally thought that the cache would be in the trusses beneath, but after walking down bank into the track right-of-way (for lack of a better term), I realized that it was probably too hard for the Terrain rating. I went up on top of the bridge instead and there I found a magnetic keybox. Inveni, inscripsi, reposui, and I was off again, leaving the state of Georgia, bound for…
Geocaching While Black 